Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lewis H. Lapham

The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation you can make of it what you will

Joseph Campbell

Chief Seattle, of the Indians that inhabited the Seattle area, wrote a wonderful paper that has to do with putting oneself in tune with the universe. He said

Gabrielle Zevin

I have so much paperwork. I'm afraid my paperwork has paperwork.

Olive Schreiner

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

Napoleon Bonaparte

While I live I will never resort to irredeemable paper.

Martin Amis

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

Red Buttons

Ponce de Leon, who said when he discovered the Fountain of Youth, Where the hell are the paper cups? Never got a dinner!

Ron Paul

Right now, nobody legalized paper money. Where did that come from.

Rachel True

I like to make collages - paper collages.

Thomas A. Edison

Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future

Sheila Nevins

To me, I read good reviews in lots of papers and bad reviews in lots of papers.

Karl Kraus

If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves; and more than that, it is an instigator.

Kathryn Stockett

Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious

Maggie Stiefvater

But love isn't quantifiable on paper.

Haruki Murakami

Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to keep and what to unload.

Gustav Mahler

Life's been nothing but paperwork.

John Lothrop Motley

History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.

Rabindranath Tagore

These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.

Joseph Joubert

The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

Randy Schekman

It's actually a very unpleasant experience to read a Nature paper, or to read a Science paper.

Thomas Jefferson

Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.

Thomas Jefferson

Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.

Sylvia Porter

In those days [1935] I would read what the opposition papers got out, and I'd say to myself, 'What I'm doing just isn't good enough.'

Renny Harlin

I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here.

Steve McClaren

I don't read the papers, I don't gamble, I don't even know what day it is!

Vince Cable

According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.

Rod Taylor

To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.

Robert Scheer

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.

Sam Walton

It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.

Umberto Eco

I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.

Rick Bragg

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

Toru Takemitsu

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

Stanley Kubrick

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.